The conversation between Sakh'arran and Kael lasted nine hours.
Not nine hours of presentation. Nine hours of argument in the specific sense that two analytical minds used argument: not disputation for its own sake, but the collaborative process of testing each assertion against every available objection until what remained was the thing that the objections could not dislodge. Productive argument between people of similar capability had a rhythm, a back-and-forth that distinguished it from the kind of argument that was about winning.
This was not about winning. Both of them understood that.
